[haiku-development] Re: BScreen and workspace changes.
- From: "Axel Dörfler" <axeld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2009 10:42:23 +0200 CEST
Stefano Ceccherini <stefano.ceccherini@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 2009/8/16 Bruno Albuquerque <bga@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> > I am seeing a behaviour with BScreen that I think is not correct
> > but I
> > am not sure. if you just call SetMode(&mode), the resolution
> > changes as
> > expected but if you switch to a new workspace and back, the
> > resolution
> > is reset to the default workspace resolution.
> >
> > SetMode() does accept an extra flag that, according to the Be Book,
> > makes the resolution change become the default resolution for the
> > workspace: SetMode(&mode, true).
> >
> > The problem with this is that most programs that use BScreen (I am
> > talking about games) only want to set the resolution while they are
> > running but they do want to make sure that the resolution will be
> > restored on workspace switch.
> >
> > Should this flag be really used for this purpose? If not, is this a
> > problem with our BScreen?
> I think it's a problem of our BScreen implementation (server side,
> actually): the makedefault parameter means that the settings are
> preserved between reboots (if true). Otherwise, settings should be
> preserved between workspace switches but not between reboots.
Indeed, though I would prefer to bind that to the app in question, so
that the mode is also reverted when the app quits.
Bye,
Axel.
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